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PSP Soft Reset DoS via Network Scan

 
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sethfogie



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:07 am    Post subject: PSP Soft Reset DoS via Network Scan Reply with quote

For more info, check out the blog and video...

http://www.informit.com/discussion/index.asp?postid=9b0165e1-4083-464c-b998-8f73d08ac355&a=a#9b0165e1-4083-464c-b998-8f73d08ac355
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senas8



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Location: Romania/USA

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hehehe :) wicked man wicked.
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otakucode



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What does he mean by "custom keyboard"?
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sethfogie



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:06 pm    Post subject: If you're referring to the browser article.. Reply with quote

...the keyboard is just something quick I came up with to help people enter URLs on the PSP browser. Using the default method is very slow and annoying...

Nothing major, but still very handy (at least I have found it handy)

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=381377&seqNum=11 is the link right to the keyboard section...
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cheetah



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used mangleme today and I have a couple pages that cause the Wipeout web browser to shutdown the PSP altogther. I wonder if there is some kind or watchdog the shuts down if a page fault is detected.
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AlexGreen



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I doubt that there is a watchdog for page fault. There is probably a convention for creating PSP code that the current process must kick the dog or else it gets shut down. So you lock up the browser with this DoS attack and the counter on timer is not reset any more - your PSP shuts down.
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fireether



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just ran a nmap scan on the PSP...
nmap -sS -v -v -p 1-65535 <psp ip> - this was during network test mode.

No ports found. Nothing founded except: (1) PSP is up, (2) MAC address is owned by sony.

So either the Ports being found is:
(1) A hoax. (2) Only while playing a certain game, which then begs the question, why does that game open up those ports? May end up being offtopic. (3) A result of older firmware.

In my opinion, the PSP doesnt require any ports open. It would make connections, and then get responses back to a preassigned port, but theres no need for it to sit there with ports open. Why would anybody put a FTP server on a PSP is beyond me, unless a game uses it to exchange data. But there are other ways that are more secure to exchange data than to use a commonly known protocol that would be detected immediately.

Another possibility is that the person who discovered the ports.. His router could've been blocking those ports, and then they turned up as "discovered". When nmap tried to scan them, the packets went through the router and were blocked - causing no reply, and showing up as filtered.

One side note.. After I scanned my PSP and I exited network test mode..
The Network LED remained lit. It didnt go out like it was suppose to.

Switching off the network (via switch) caused the led to flicker once or twice but remained lit. I turned on the network and then switched it off again, and the LED finally went off.

Thus, the network switch is soft and not hard. It may be 100% soft (i.e. program can choose to ignore the switch setting) or it may only be soft to the network processor / API.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are a huge number of threads and conversations about this topic already in these forums. The consensus is that the nmap and other scanners were going through wifi access points / routers and seeing NAT ports opened up that appeared to be on the PSP. I suggest researching back through those threads and then commenting on whether or not any of those make any sense.
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